The three-time Wimbledon champion and former coach of Novak Djokovic says he has an allegiance with three English teams, as well as Bayern Munich.

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The German explained: “Bayern are my favourite team, and not only because I was on their board of directors for 10 years.

“When I was living in Munich, I became good friends with my hero Franz Beckenbauer, plus people like Uli Hoeness and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and many of the Bayern players, and my knowledge of football is a bit better than your average tennis professional.

“My favourite English team is Chelsea. The reason for that is I used to have a flat in Chelsea, and I befriended Frank Lampard.

“He said that before going to watch any other team I should come to Stamford Bridge because I was going to become a Blue. That was about 15 years ago, and I have stuck with it.

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“I live in Wimbledon now so AFC Wimbledon are my local club. I went to a couple of games and I met the president and I support them and hopefully they will get better and come back to the Premier League.

“And Tottenham are another team I follow. I must say hello to my neighbour, Bill, who is a die-hard Spurs fan and I have been to the Lane a couple of times.”

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Premier League predictions – week 17

Result

Lawro

Boris

SATURDAY

Crystal Palace v Chelsea

x-x

1-1

1-2

Middlesbrough v Swansea

x-x

2-0

3-1

Stoke v Leicester

x-x

1-2

1-0

Sunderland v Watford

x-x

2-1

1-0

West Ham v Hull

x-x

2-0

2-0

West Brom v Man Utd

x-x

0-2

1-2

SUNDAY

Bournemouth v Southampton

x-x

2-0

1-1

Man City v Arsenal

x-x

1-1

2-1

Tottenham v Burnley

x-x

2-0

2-0

MONDAY

Everton v Liverpool

x-x

1-1

1-1

A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.

For the midweek Premier League games, Lawro got six correct results, with two perfect scores, from 10 Premier League matches. That gave him a total of 120 points.

LAWRO’S PREDICTIONS

SATURDAY

I was at the Stadium of Light on Wednesday to see Chelsea beat Sunderland 1-0 and I saw the gulf between the team at the top of the table and a side at the bottom.

Sunderland gave everything but had nowhere near the same quality as the Blues.

It was a very impressive performance by Antonio Conte’s side and, like their win over West Brom at the weekend, it came against a team who just tried to stop them.

In both games, Chelsea found a way to keep their winning run, which has now stretched to 10 games, going with a great goal and they did not concede. In fact, the opposition have only scored twice against them in that time.

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This is another tough game – Crystal Palace were only beaten by a late Manchester United goal on Wednesday and made life difficult for them.

This Blues run will end at some point and I think it will end when they are away from home.

A point would be a great result for Palace and, although it will mean Chelsea drop a couple of points, it will not be a serious setback.

Lawro’s prediction: 1-1

Boris’s prediction: Palace are struggling a little bit and Chelsea are on a roll. The momentum is with them and I think they will keep it going. 1-2

Liverpool just took Middlesbrough apart on Wednesday night, while Swansea had a mad few minutes against West Brom where Salomon Rondon did the same to them.

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The Swans have conceded 12 goals in their past four games but still picked up six points, which is a bit crazy. It tells you a lot about what they are like at the moment – in the top flight, only Hull have a worse defence.

Middlesbrough’s issues are at the other end of the pitch and, having been at their win over Hull last week, I have seen how reluctant they are to commit players forward.

That is making it hard for Alvaro Negredo, who is up front on his own a lot of the time, and they are scoring very few goals full stop. With 13 in 16 games so far, they have the fewest in the Premier League.

So it is a team who don’t score many against a team who concede a lot. It’s difficult to predict, but I am going to go with Boro.

Lawro’s prediction: 2-0

Boris’s prediction: Both teams are struggling a little bit but I’m going for Boro to win at home. 3-1

These are always just absolutely mad games and, whoever is top or bottom, form has absolutely no bearing on the outcome.

I am going to go with a draw, purely because I don’t know what is going to happen.

Lawro’s prediction: 1-1

Boris’s prediction: What a classic. I can’t wait. Everton, with Ronald Koeman at the helm, had a good win over Arsenal on Tuesday – but here I have got to support my countryman Jurgen Klopp. I think his Liverpool side are going to get a draw, at least. 1-1

Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan.

Lawro v Guests

P16

W10

D0

L6

SCORE

GUEST LEADERBOARD

150

Elis James

130

Tim Vine

120

Robbie Williams

110

Michael van Gerwen

100

Joe Clarke

90

Colin Murray

88

Lawro (average after 16 weeks)

80

Nicole Scherzinger

70

Dave Bautista, Sam Burgess, Athletico Mince

60

Rick Astley

50

Charlie Sloth, Laura Kenny

40

Ed Balls

30

Blossoms

20

Lloyd Griffith

Lawro’s best score: 160 points (week thirteen v Tim Vine)

Lawro’s worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)

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